Aging makes ordinary physical abilities reveal how extraordinary they always were.

Getting older tends to reveal that things you dismissed as trivially easy were achievements of coordination, strength, and repair happening constantly without your involvement. Standing up, turning over in bed, walking downstairs in the dark. None of it was ever ordinary, it just did not require your attention. The recognition usually arrives alongside the loss.

Rather than waiting for that, notice one such ability today and treat it as remarkable, because it is. Then protect it. The recognition is more useful when it comes early.